Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 998, Samuel Eddy, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Eddy, Samuel
5998
CONTENTS
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New Year
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File No.
998 Samuel Eddy Prio. N. J. Miss.
Act :
June 7, 1892.
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[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1888 March 29 F.M. Eddy - history Prior
New Jersey 28.219
James [illegible] of [illegible] in the State of [illegible] who was a [illegible] in the Company commanded by Captain [illegible] of the [illegible] commanded by Col [illegible] in the [illegible] line for [illegible]
15 years $ 63.33
Inscribed on the Roll of [illegible] at the rate of 15 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of April 1831 and [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of [illegible] 160.00 Semi-annual allowance ending [illegible] 131.16
$ 291.16
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by [illegible] Clerk, Book [illegible] Vol. 3 Page 110
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Application of Samuel Eddy & N. Seely, for a pen- sion, under the law of 1832.
Adm. 1. year and 7. Months. —
40 70 3.33 63.33
J. P. Randolph Agent

Declaration of Samuel Eddy, of the County of Middlesex New Jersey, in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress of June 7. 1832.
State of New Jersey
• Middlesex County, ss. On this day personally appeared Samuel Eddy, of Middlesex County, to me known to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing declaration, and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed.
That he was born in the township of Woodbridge in the County of Middlesex & State of New Jersey, on the twenty sixth day of March 1761, as appears from a record now in his possession. Several times at the commencement of the Revolutionary War where he was born, and has lived there from that time to the present. He was enrolled in the militia in the Spring of 1778, in the company at that time commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Dine & subsequently by Capt. Robert Ross. Said company belonged to Crown's reg t 1 st Genl. Hearn's Brigade. Soon after, in the same year, he performed a term of duty of one month under Capt. Dine, in the line of duty. In May to Elizabethtown, in protecting the inhabitants and their property from the British & their Indian allies, and from the numerous gangs of Tories prowling about the country. From that time Colonel Hearn's General Hearn. The remainder of the year 1778, he performed three other terms of duty of a month

such on the same station, and in the same kind of service. One of these later was under Capt. Price, who thinks, and the other two under Capt. Col Randolph. The battle of Monmouth was fought du- ring one of her tours this year, but she was ordered to remain on the Woodbridge station, where something was necessary. In the year 1779 Capt. Ross had taken the command of her company, and he understood during that year at least four tours of a month each under said Captain, under Col. Orange, who thinks in the duty of defending the line from Amboy to Elizabeth town. There were nothing remarkable occurred this year in the course of her service. In the year 1780 was out again as usual on the line as aforesaid, and served one month or more under Capt. Price, another tour of a month under Capt. Safford, another tour of a month under Capt. Col. Randolph, and had another tour of a month under Capt. Price ge, all on the line between Amboy & Elizabeth in guarding them from a visitant Hamilton's Army. Col. Brown then the Colonels were alter- nately in command of them. The battle of Spring- field was fought this year, but his company remained on their station. In 1781, he performed his post less than four tours of a month each and as Capt. Ross, he being this year clausured with him and all on the same station in the same service as before mentioned. And so continued in 1782, he did not lose more than three tours of a month each, all as he believes under his own cap- tain Ross, and all on the line between Eliza- beth & Amboy in the service of guarding the lives and property of the inhabitants. Col. White was their Colonel, in both these years, and Head their General. His service was

also the capacity of a private. He never to his knowledge received a written discharge from the service. He has no recollection of ever serving under a continental officer, or with continental troops, his duty not calling him into action where these troops were rendered necessary, or where they were operating. Being a poor farmer, he has for a long time been secluded from the world, and has not a single acquaintance among the country men near his neighborhood. Those especially to the present  nearest to him are all young men, or have recently been settled here, and there is not one of them that he can call upon to testify to his character. He hangs in the  reputation  reputation of his most respectable neighbors, to whom  to whom he is most known, for evidence as to the respect in which he is held, & for traditional testimony as to his revolutionary services; and to Joseph Safford & Abner Dinsmore as to their knowledge of his revolutionary services . And these last named are all the witnesses living, to whom he knows, of those services.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension list of any army of any state.
Given this 10th day of March A.D. 1842 Samuel Eddy Peter P. Dinsmore Judge
We William & Hannibal William Eddy residing in the township of Mendon, and near neighbors to Samuel Eddy, who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with said Eddy, that we believe him to be seventy five years of age, as he states, that

he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Re- volution, and that no concealment of that opinion been indicated the day,  Yours sincerely Peter R. Runyon judge  Wm. H. Manning Jr William Manning
On the same day before the judge, a person generally appeared Joseph Safford, who being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is a soldier of the Revolution and upon re- ceiving eighty dollars a year for pay rendered in that war; that he is well acquainted with Samuel Eddy the foregoing applicant for a pension, has known him from boyhood, always lived in the same neighborhood with him; that his service in the war of the Revolution, belonged to the same company, commanded by Capt. Dyer, and afterwards by Capt. West, served with him after knowing that said Eddy was a good and faithful soldier, turning out at every call, and serving his time regularly. Knows that he entered the service in 1778 and served in each and every year thereafter to the conclusion of peace in 1783, several times in each year. He, the de- ponent served sometimes six times in a year, and said Eddy, he thinks, must have served at least three or four months in a year. He cannot, of course, speak certainly as to this. He only knows that the calls upon the militia were very frequent, and that said Eddy was in no instance, as he believes, absent. Said Eddy is a respectable man, though in very humble life, & his oath not to be questioned. He has no doubt of the truth of what he says in relation to his war- service.  Given under my hand this 10th day of March 1840  Yours sincerely Peter R. Runyon judge  Joseph Safford

At the same day before the Judge afterwards, a man ap- peared William Dunham, who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is a soldier of the Revolution, and is now receiving a pension for his services as such; that he well knows Eli- mer Eddy the foregoing applicant for a pension, has known him from boyhood, was brought up within a few miles of each other, but being in different townships did not belong to the same company; recollects well however, of the services of said Eddy, and that he served with him occasionally, recollects him in each of the years 1778, '79, '80 '81, & '82, and, indeed, up to the termination of the war - cannot find out belonging to the same company say how many times the said Eddy performed duty as he was an ardent soldier and a brave soldier, and, so far as the deponent knows and believes, always answered the call made upon him, he has no doubt he served three to four times in each of the years above mentioned. As the deponent himself did so serve, and so must all have served who were able to do duty and faithful to their country. Said Eddy was able & faithful to the deponent's personal knowledge, and better yet believes he did more as he claims to have served. Said Eddy is a man of veracity, and entitled to full credit in what he says. Sworn & subscribed the day 5 th Upon a forenoon Peter P. Runyon Judge
Elizabeth Dunham
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after put- ting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Dept. That the foregoing applicant, Samuel Eddy was

a Revolutionary Soldier, and served in the State of New York. The Court further certify that it appears to them that William Manning Jr and William Mundy, who have signed the certificate as to the character of said Eddy and their belief of his revolutionary services, and Joseph Risfield and Abraham Dun- ham who have testified to their knowledge of the Revolutionary services of said Eddy, are all no- table persons, and that their several statements are entitled to belief.
Thos Thane Isaac Potter Esq Simon Mundy Peter B. Runyon Esq
I, Nicholas Bonar, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court, in the matter of the application of Samuel Eddy for a Pension. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, this nineteenth day of March in the year one thou- sand eight hundred thirty four.
N. Bonar Clerk